Career: After being hired to make cabinets for George Lucas, Ford was cast in the director's 1973 film American Graffiti. They reunited for the original Star Wars trilogy, which made both their names. His role as intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels cemented his position as one of the world's best-loved heroes. Ford was Oscar-nominated for Peter Weir's thriller Witness. He worked with the director again on 1986 project The Mosquito Coast, which despite being a flop remains one of his favourite movies. Other notable projects include The Fugitive, Blade Runner, Working Girl, Patriot Games and Cowboys & Aliens.

Career: Sean worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his TV debut in a 1984 episode of The Bill. Roles in The Fifteen Streets, Stormy Monday and Patriot Games followed before Lady Chatterley and the first Sharpe TV movies made him a household name in 1993. Other work includes A Woman's Guide to Adultery, Bravo Two Zero, GoldenEye, Ronin, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Equilibrium, Troy, National Treasure and HBO TV series Game of Thrones. He is one of Hollywood's most sought-after character actors and always has a number of productions in the pipeline.

Career: Jackson's first film was Together for Days in 1972. He later spent two years as a stand-in on The Cosby Show, before starring in the original Broadway production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. A series of walk-on parts in films and on TV followed. Spike Lee cast him as the crack-addicted Gator in Jungle Fever, which gained him international acclaim. His most notable films have included Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction (for which he was Oscar-nominated), Star Wars: Episodes One, Two and Three, Shaft, The 51st State, Unbreakable, Changing Lanes, Black Snake Moan, Django Unchained, Thor, The Avengers and many more. He is regarded as one of the most bankable assets in the movie business and always has a number of films in the pipeline.

Career: Harris made his film debut in the 1958 British comedy Alive and Kicking. Other roles followed in The Guns of Navarone and Mutiny on the Bounty before his first lead role came in 1963's This Sporting Life. Other movies followed, including The Heroes of Telemark, Major Dundee, Camelot, A Man Called Horse, The Cassandra Crossing and The Wild Geese. He appeared in a number of forgettable productions during the 1980s but returned to form in the 1990s with The Field, Patriot Games and Unforgiven. His later films included Gladiator and two Harry Potter films. He died in London on October 25, 2002, at the age of 72, following a battle with Hodgkin's disease.

Career: Appeared in 1962's The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner and he became famous for The Servant a year later. He then starred in Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Chase and Isadora. In 1970, he made Performance with Mick Jagger, but then dropped out of showbusiness to do vocational work with Christian missionary sect The Navigators. Apart from religious low-budget movie No Longer Alone, he didn't act again until Country in 1981. Since then, he's appeared in acclaimed productions A Passage to India, Greystoke, The Remains of the Day, Jinnah, Sexy Beast and the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Career: Walker landed the title role in the TV series Lorna Doone before making her feature debut in Shogun Warrior in 1991. In the same year she appeared in two other films, Les Equilibristes and Mike Newell's Enchanted April, in which she played an aristocrat eager to escape the attentions of her persistent admirers. She came to international attention as a single-minded member of an Irish terrorist splinter group in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games (1992), and has worked steadily in both TV and cinema since, including a star turn in the miniseries State of Play. In 2005, she appeared in the first season of the HBO series Rome, playing Atia, the niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Octavian, later Caesar Augustus. More recent work includes roles in Waking the Dead, Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel, Numb3rs, Caprica, Sanctuary, Prisoners Wives, Clash of the Titans (2010), John Carter (2012), Warehouse 13 and Mr Selfridge.